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Different Teaching Styles In Medical Schools
I am aware that the teaching in medical schools falls into 1 of three categories:
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
If someone in the know could assign each of these different teaching styles to the medical schools listed below it would be much appreciated.
This will then be a useful guide for myself and others; it may be a contributing factor as to which medical schools to apply.
Aberdeen
Barts and the London
Birmingham
Brighton and Sussex
Bristol
Cambridge
Cardiff
Dundee
East Anglia
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Hull York
Imperial College London
Keele University
King's College London
Leeds
Leicester
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle
Nottingham
Oxford
Peninsula
Queen's University Belfast
Sheffield
Southampton
St Andrew's
St George's
University College London
Many Thanks, Oliver
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
If someone in the know could assign each of these different teaching styles to the medical schools listed below it would be much appreciated.
This will then be a useful guide for myself and others; it may be a contributing factor as to which medical schools to apply.
Aberdeen
Barts and the London
Birmingham
Brighton and Sussex
Bristol
Cambridge
Cardiff
Dundee
East Anglia
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Hull York
Imperial College London
Keele University
King's College London
Leeds
Leicester
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle
Nottingham
Oxford
Peninsula
Queen's University Belfast
Sheffield
Southampton
St Andrew's
St George's
University College London
Many Thanks, Oliver
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I am aware that the teaching in medical schools in the UK falls into one of three categories:
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
If someone in the know could assign each of the universities listed below to the above teaching styles that would be much appreciated.
Aberdeen
Barts and the London
Birmingham
Brighton and Sussex
Bristol
Cambridge
Cardiff
Dundee
East Anglia
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Hull York
Imperial College London
Keele University
King's College London
Leeds
Leicester
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle
Nottingham
Oxford
Peninsula
Queen's University Belfast
Sheffield
Southampton
St Andrew's
St George's
University College London
Many Thanks, Oliver
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
If someone in the know could assign each of the universities listed below to the above teaching styles that would be much appreciated.
Aberdeen
Barts and the London
Birmingham
Brighton and Sussex
Bristol
Cambridge
Cardiff
Dundee
East Anglia
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Hull York
Imperial College London
Keele University
King's College London
Leeds
Leicester
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle
Nottingham
Oxford
Peninsula
Queen's University Belfast
Sheffield
Southampton
St Andrew's
St George's
University College London
Many Thanks, Oliver
Use the wiki.
Oliver_S
I am aware that the teaching in medical schools in the UK falls into one of three categories:
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
Teaching is not divided into those three categories.
Med schools are either traditional or integrated.
Then they are either lecture-based courses or PBL.
All PBL courses are integrated.
All traditional courses are lecture based.
There are also many integrated courses that are lecture based.
Aberdeen
Barts and the London - PBL integrated
Birmingham - lecture based integrated
Brighton and Sussex - lecture based integrated
Bristol - lecture based integrated
Cambridge - lecture based traditional
Cardiff - lecture based integrated
Dundee
East Anglia - PBL integrated
Edinburgh - lecture based integrated
Glasgow
Hull York - PBL integrated
Imperial College London - lecture-based "integrated"
Keele University
King's College London - lecture-based "integrated"
Leeds
Leicester
Liverpool
Manchester - PBL integrated
Newcastle - Lecture based integrated
Nottingham
Oxford - lecture based traditional
Peninsula - PBL integrated
Queen's University Belfast - lecture based integrated
Sheffield
Southampton
St Andrew's - lecture based traditional
St George's - lecture based integrated
University College London - lecture based "integrated"
I've only done the ones I know about. UCL, KCL and Imperial have got "integrated" in inverted commas because (I've been told by medics who I met on work experience) they have only token amounts of patient contact in the pre-clinical years.
I think nearly every medical school will have PBL in some form or another, some well thought through and an integral part of how they do things, others as a tag-on to satisfy the GMC. Really, you need to talk to people at the medschools you shortlist in some detail to get a good feel for the detail and the attitudes at the school.
How many of these threads are there asking pretty much exactly the same question Oliver? Not to mention the fact that you don't need some other people to be your lackeys when you've obviously got the fully-functioning eyes, fingers and internet connection required to look up school prospectuses. So get going.
The difficulty lies where the lines blur. Some medical schools use some PBL with some more traditional. There also needs to be a distinction made between systems-based and subject-based format.
Germany, 1943. Pilot Capt. AEH goes down behind enemy lines and is captured by a Nazi patrol demanding to know the teaching style of Edinburgh Medical School. Upon failure to say anything other than name, rank and serial number he is sent to Colditz to be interrogated by the vicious "Oliver".
Further laziness will be met by further sarcasm.
Further laziness will be met by further sarcasm.
The medicine section has taken an interesting turn of late... mostly due to BLers 
Check the prospectuses
ha
sorry mate do your own research...as a medic/doc you are going to have to.
try the tsr wiki
sorry mate do your own research...as a medic/doc you are going to have to.
try the tsr wiki
Oliver_S
I am aware that the teaching in medical schools falls into 1 of three categories:
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
If someone in the know could assign each of these different teaching styles to the medical schools listed below it would be much appreciated.
This will then be a useful guide for myself and others; it may be a contributing factor as to which medical schools to apply.
.....
Many Thanks, Oliver
PBL
Integrated
Traditional
If someone in the know could assign each of these different teaching styles to the medical schools listed below it would be much appreciated.
This will then be a useful guide for myself and others; it may be a contributing factor as to which medical schools to apply.
.....
Many Thanks, Oliver
If you have a look at the websites, or prospectuses, I'm sure you'll find the information. The TSR Wiki might be of help too.
Just to get you started, and because I'm so nice (
) Cardiff is integrated.
Applications are due in less than three months, and some people haven't got their head round the difference between traditional and integrated courses.... God help them if anyone asks this question in October...
Becca-Sarah
Applications are due in less than three months, and some people haven't got their head round the difference between traditional and integrated courses.... God help them if anyone asks this question in October...
I've only just finished my GCSEs - so in fact i'm a year early.
Oliver
So quit getting so stressed about which uni does which course. You've got a whole 15 months til your application is due, so you can spend that time doing your own research. It really doesn't take that long to read medical school websites, there's only 30 of them at the most.
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